On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 05:41:39PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Corinna Vinschen, le Thu 24 Nov 2005 16:41:38 +0100, a ?crit : >>On Nov 24 12:39, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>>Corinna Vinschen, le Thu 24 Nov 2005 12:25:03 +0100, a ?crit : >>>>You're missing the infrastructure necessary to send file descriptor >>>>data between processes. >>> >>>This is not trivial indeed, but it is _possible_, isn't it? >> >>Well, sure, everything is possible one way or the other. > >Not when it requires modifying the windows kernel because of security >guards. Here, transfering a windows socket handle _is_ possible with >the current kernel. Work only resides in cygwin. That's the expected >answer to the original question, I guess.
Yeah, if only the infrastructure necessary to send file descriptor data between processes wasn't trivial. If it was, we could even use plain old DuplicateHandle. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
